Last night, the US military invaded a quiet residential neighborhood in Pasadena for a “training exercise” that went until 1AM. Mayor Victor Gordo didn’t inform residents until right before and supposedly the military didn’t tell the city until yesterday
Widow's Bay balance of horror and comedy, where it never sacrifices one for the other, is borderline miraculous. Just how fast and effortlessly it switches between the two.
“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”
'Andor' creator Tony Gilroy's Peabody Awards Acceptance Speech:
“We spent six years contemplating a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking about what happens to ordinary beings when an authoritarian, insane, unchecked regime comes into the deal, and the show is really kind of what we learned"
“If you’re not willing to fight for the things that you love, your family, community, your culture, your planet, your truth, freedom, there’s an asshole ready to come in and take it away. We learned that bravery and sacrifice and resistance comes in all shapes and sizes, and we learned that courage is contagious"
“There’s so much is happening, it’s a fire hose of crap that you just can’t get through. And here we are. There isn’t a new cycle that goes by right now that doesn’t contain a variety of outrages that in any other time in our history in America wouldn’t be grounds for treason"
“Please do not stop. Please do not turn out the lights until we can kill this nightmare… and fuck the Empire!”
(via @Variety)
If I may- in my estimation- #WidowsBay may very well be the best streaming series in a long time… and hands down one of the most mesmerizing acts of narrative prestidigitation in Horror.
JD Vance just ended his presidential exploratory election committee. Now, his mentor, Peter Thiel, has fled the U.S., for right wing Argentina. But not before declaring that he might have overstated AI’s impact on society, particularly on employment.
Something bad is happening.
gotta be honest if ur entire next day is ruined because u drank a couple glasses of wine the night before ur kind of a pussy
i’m loving this new anti optimization wave going on right now, we got one life, live it
Spencer Pratt's "grassroots campaign" for LA mayor is being bankrolled from outside LA.
I analyzed public Ethics Commission data. Here's what it shows:
- 80% of his donors aren't from the city of LA
- 50% of all money raised ($1.6M of $3.2M) came from out-of-state: Texas (683), Florida (567), Arizona (340)
- 3,882 retired donors - the demographic fingerprint of the national MAGA/Fox News small-dollar machine
His policies read like a Heritage Foundation wishlist, the Angelenos in his ads are AI-generated, and his support online are from paid clippers.
This is a national MAGA operation running on local ballot lines.